Toupee



Feb. 16 1932. P. H. WESTMORE 1,8 5 380 TOUPEE Filed Jan. 27, 1931 Patented Feb. 16, 1932 warren STATES E A TENT OFFICE,

PERCY H. WES'IMORE, or LosANeELns, CALIFORNIA, assrenoa r MAX moron. &

00., INC., on Los Anennns, CALIFORNIA momma 7 Application filed January 27, 1931. Serial No. 511,455.

My invention relates to toupes, and more particularlyto a new and improved method of constructing the same so as to make them appear more real and to make it difficult to detect that the hair upon ones head is not the real thing and attached by the roots in natures own way. e

In making toupes and similar articles it has been customary to provide around the 10 edge of the background or foundation base a border facing or binding and this necessarily increases the tlnckness around the edge and requires that it be covered up with the hair being extended thereover, which naturally discloses that the hair is artificially attached.

My improved method makes it impossible to detect without the very closest inspection that the hair'upon a head is not the natural growth thereon, and I accomplish this by using a very fine net foundation with an unfinished edge so that the skin is seen through the mesh and the mesh is so fine and inconspicuous when placed over the skin that it is very diflicult to detect the unfinished edge. Each hair is attached in such a way that the hairs are uniformly distributed and give the appearance of being attached by natural growth.

In order to explain my invention more in' detail, I have illustrated the same on the accompanying sheet of drawings which I will now describe.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toupe embodying my invention I Figure 2 is an inside View thereof; and

Figure 3 is an enlarged segment of the foundation net showing how the hairs are attached to the strands of the net.

Referring more in detail to the drawings,

foundation is composed-both of the netand fabric structures, with the reinforcing discs or portions 6, 6, at the corners'or ends where there is possibility of strain, andwhich also serve as placement and holdlng means for more surely attaching the article to thehead.

so fine it is hard to show ture.

instead of using the fabric 5, as is common.

ly used in the manufacture of toupes, wigs and other hair creations, I have conceived the idea of facing said fabric with a fine net or lacestructure, designated 4, and which is v adequately, and in tying each hair into one of the openings or to one of the strands of said net or lace struc- The hair is easily tied by doubling the hair and then inserting the two ends through the loop formed'and drawing this arouncla strand of'the net or lace foundation, as indicated in the enlarged vieW,'Fig. 3,'at 7, the

hairbeing designated 8. It will beunderstood, of course, that other ways'of tying or securing the hair to thestrands of the'foundaw my invention.

The hair as it approaches the front or edge of the lace foundation is preferably slightly lighter so thatrthere is a gradual merging with the lace and the skin color, thus making it very diflicult to detect that the article is artificially applied to the head. This cannot tion can be used, as this is not the heart of be accomplished where there is a'heavy border or binding,as is usual in articlesof this kind,

but with careful workmanship and good quality of net or lace foundation, I have found that it is possible to makeup astructure or creation which is most real when applied to the head. 7 r i ,I do not limit the invention to the exact details of arrangement shown for descriptive purposes except as I may be limited by a v broad interpretation of the hereto appended claims, I

Iclaim: I l. In a toupe and the like a foundation of fine net work to which the hairs are attached,

being unfinished whereby the hair has the appearance of being attached to the skin in the natural way, the hair. being gradually thinneras it approaches the unfinished edge ofthe net.

2. In the manufacture of a head coverlng ing the individual hairs tied thereto and having the edge of said net cut and unfinished the foundation net is designated 4, and is of lthe edge thereof-which rests over the forehead for bald portions, a fine open mesh net havit approaches the w th the skin as 1t approaches said unfinished with the ends adapted to lie close upon the skin of the wearer and appear as emerging from the skin,

nor as it approaches the unfinished edge of the net.

3. A toupe of the character shown and de-' scribed in which its edge out and upon the skin to appear an open net foundation has left unfinished to lie close as emerging therefrom, the hair being gradually thinner as it approaches the unfinished edge of 'thenet. 4:. In a toupe or the like having'a fabric foundation with hair attached thereto, a facing of fine open lace work merging with the fabric and to which the hairs are individual- 1y. attached, said lace work and hair harmonizing with the skin to produce a more realistic efi'ect, the hair being gradually thinner as 5. In a toupe and the like, a foundation of fine, open mesh net material, and hairs at-' tached to said net material, said not material having a marginal edge portion unfinished to lie close" upon the skin, the hair being gradually thinner as it approaches said unfinished marginal edge portion.

6. In a. toupe'and the like, a foundation of fine, open mesh net material, and hairs attached to said material, said not material having a marginal edge portion unfinished to lie close upon the skin, the hair as it approaches said unfinished marginal edge portion being lighter in color to harmonize with the skin.

7. In a toupe and the like, a foundation of fine, open mesh not material, and hairs attached to said net material, said not material having a marginal edge portion unfinished to lie close upon the skin, the hair being gradually thinner and of a color to harmonize marginal edge portion of the net material.

, 8. In a toupe and the like, a foundation of fine, open mesh net material, and hair attached to said net material, said net material having a marginal edge portion cut and unfinished with the ends adapted to lie close upon the skin of the wearer and appear as emerging from. the skin, and the net material and the hair as it approaches said marginal edge portion both being of a color to harmonize with the skin.

Signed at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, this 21st day of January, 1931.

' PERCY H. WESTMORE.

the hair being gradually thinunfinished edge of the net; 

